Jacob, special guest Travis Colenutt and a quarantined Mike hide from Guardians, shred their scarves, float high and talk about aquatic life. “I’m the bubble boy!”

A quick programming note: we had originally planned to release our Zombi/ZombiU episode this week but have moved that episode to March 7th. Apologies for the change. Our March 21st episode is FTL: Faster Than Light.

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After playing through Warhammer: The End Times – Vermintide, Moe and Jacob had a conversation over Discord with Victor Magnuson. Victor is a Game Designer and Producer at Fatshark Games in Stockholm, Sweden. The team at Fatshark is currently working on Warhammer: Vermintide 2, a sequel to the highly successful original game.

Moe and Jacob talk about Victor’s jump from finance to game design, the history of Fatshark Games, how they began work on the Warhammer IP, the community they have built around the franchise and the upcoming Warhammer: Vermintide 2.

An open beta for Warhammer: Vermintide 2 is launching soon and the release date for the game will be announced in the near future.

Player: Jacob McCourt (@JacobMcCourt) & Moe Murtadi (@mmurtadi)

Guest: Victor Magnuson (@Zarpan)

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Show Notes:

1:00 Victor and Moe talk about their shared transition away from the Finance Industry

5:34 Victor’s journey at Fatshark Games (covering GRIN, Quality Assurance and Game Design)

9:53 How did Fatshark get connected with Games Workshop?

11:58 How do you interact with Games Workshop on the game?

14:44 What’s the pitch and the pillars for Warhammer: Vermintide?

18:00 Victor talks about why they supported Warhammer: Vermintide for so long with DLC (while comparing the game to Rainbow Six: Siege)

20:45 How does Fatshark interact with their active community?

23:23 We transition to Vermintide 2, Victor talks about the difference between V1 and V2

25:50 Victor talks about the addition of the Chaos Faction to Vermintide 2

27:57 The addition of Career Paths in Vermintide 2

31:27 Victor talks about the difference between the loot systems in Vermintide 1 and Vermintide 2

33:23 We talk about the game’s Spawn Director

36:32 We ask Victor what he is most exciting to watch and play when development on Vermintide 2 wraps up